Quotes About Creativity

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.

If my fans only want me to do a certain kind of films, then 'Naanaku Prematho' would have failed miserably. They've entrusted me with the freedom to select good and different scripts.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.